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For two Liberty County sheriff's deputies it was just a routine dinner break at a Hinesville restaurant - that is, until they went to settle the bill and learned their meal was paid for by an anonymous citizen who simply wrote on the receipt, "Blue Lives Matter, Thank You," which touched both men deeply.

A shoplifting incident that began Thursday afternoon at the Wal-Mart Supercenter on West Oglethorpe Highway in Hinesville led authorities on a high-speed chase that went through six municipalities and two counties before ending in a wreck.

During his short tenure at Long County High School, former assistant band director and choral activities director Michael Loredo had a number of problems that caused his supervisors concern, including discussing a female student's menstrual cycle and taking two female students in his personal vehicle on an unauthorized overnight trip to Savannah, according to his Long County School System personnel file.

Editor's note: This article has been revised to reflect the following clarification, which will appear in Sunday's print edition. Tasha Waye was driving a Chevrolet Impala that was involved in a collision with a Toyota 4Runner driven by Carolyn Smith near Liberty County High School on Highway 84 on Monday morning. The vehicles the women were driving were both correctly and incorrectly identified in an article in Wednesday's edition.

The following are among the food service establishments inspected in March by the Liberty County Health Department. The department scores on a 100-percentile scale. Kitchens are inspected at least every four months and are required to post their score sheets in public. The score and selected comments from health inspectors are included in each report. To view all restaurant scores, go to dph.georgia.gov/environ mental-health-inspections.